# Hooking Up

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{{short description|2000 collection of essays by Tom Wolfe}}
{{Other uses|Hook-up (disambiguation)}}
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| author        = [Tom Wolfe](/source/Tom_Wolfe)
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| genre         = [New Journalism](/source/New_Journalism)
| publisher     = [Farrar, Straus and Giroux](/source/Farrar%2C_Straus_and_Giroux)
| release_date  = 2000
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| pages         = 293
| isbn          = 0-374-10382-8
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'''''Hooking Up''''' is a collection of essays and a novella by American author [Tom Wolfe](/source/Tom_Wolfe), a number of which were earlier published in popular magazines.<ref name="hookingup" />

The essays cover diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction, along with snipes at his contemporaries [John Updike](/source/John_Updike), [Norman Mailer](/source/Norman_Mailer) and [John Irving](/source/John_Irving).

==Contents==

===Hooking Up===
*Hooking Up: What Life was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World – contemporary teenage promiscuity.

===The Human Beast===
*Two Young Men Who Went West – profiles of [Robert Noyce](/source/Robert_Noyce) and [William Shockley](/source/William_Shockley); especially comparing Noyce, founder of [Intel](/source/Intel) and a graduate of [Grinnell College](/source/Grinnell_College), with [Josiah Grinnell](/source/Josiah_Grinnell), its founder.
*Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill
*[http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/WolfeSoulDied.php Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died] - essay by Tom Wolfe (Forbes, 1996) contains profile of [E. O. Wilson](/source/E._O._Wilson).

===Vita Robusta, Ars Anorexica===
*In the Land of the Rococo Marxists
*The Invisible Artist
*The Great Relearning
*My Three Stooges –Wolfe's castigation of Mailer, Updike, and Irving

===Ambush at Fort Bragg: A Novella===
*Ambush at Fort Bragg – a fictional investigative television program delves into military harassment of gay people.

===The ''New Yorker'' Affair===
*Foreword: Murderous Gutter Journalism
*Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead! – 1965 profile of ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)'' editor [William Shawn](/source/William_Shawn)
*Lost in the Whichy Thickets
*Afterword: High in the Saddle

==Publication data==
*Tom Wolfe, ''Hooking Up'' (2000), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover: {{ISBN|0-374-10382-8}}
**2001 Picador trade paperback: {{ISBN|0-312-42023-4}}
**2001 Picador mass market paperback: {{ISBN|0-330-48611-X}}

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=hookingup>{{cite book|last=Wolfe|first=Tom|title=Hooking Up|publisher=[Farrar, Straus and Giroux](/source/Farrar%2C_Straus_and_Giroux)|location=New York|isbn=0374103828|year=2000|url=https://archive.org/details/hookingup00wolf}}</ref>

}}

{{Tom Wolfe}}

Category:2000 non-fiction books
Category:Essay collections
Category:Essay collections by Tom Wolfe
Category:Books by Tom Wolfe
Category:Farrar, Straus and Giroux books

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